VMware is an active member of the open-source community, contributing its efforts to multiple projects and organizations. Helping to organize and lead VMware’s open-source initiatives is the company’s ...

VMware CEO Paul Maritz said the company has considered open sourcing its hypervisor and supporting virtualization tools made by competitors, but didn’t give any indication about if or when those ...

VMware just spent $1.26 billion to secure its place in the future of computer networking. But in acquiring the swashbuckling Silicon Valley startup Nicira, the virtualization giant is also shifting ...

Overall, we have to say that HHQ is a really strong “meta” console for VMWare environments. While it duplicates some of the functionality of the Virtual Center application shipped with VMware ESX 3.x ...

SAN FRANCISCO – VMware recently hired open source industry veteran Chip Childers to be its chief open source officer, continuing what has been a years-long process by the vendor to elevate its ...

News today from VMware of a couple of new open source projects that they're hoping will give it the opportunity to be an important player in the move to a new type of enterprise application. By way of ...

VMware on Tuesday launched an open source client for virtual desktops in a move that mixes a little bit of offense and defense. In a statement, the company said its VMware View Open Client would allow ...

Virtualization software maker VMware is facing a lawsuit alleging that it has been violating the GPLv2 free software license for years with its use of Linux and other source code in ESXi. Linux kernel ...

Our Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion shootout took a deep dive into the two most successful commercial virtualization products for the Mac, but many of you had questions about VirtualBox, the free ...

At the recent OpenStack Summit, Oracle announced that its captive distributions of Linux and the Xen hypervisor would now support Oracle's distribution of OpenStack. Here's how Oracle described what ...

Virtual machines, simulated PCs with their own operating systems running within another computer’s software, are super freakin’ cool. (That’s a technical term, I’m a professional technology writer.) ...